CME Globex Performance Enhancements
Starting Sunday, January 5 (trade date Monday, January 6), performance enhancements will be launched on the following CME Globex markets. With this launch, internal testing indicates:

iLink latency will improve up to 30%.

Per event, iLink fill notices (tag 35-MsgType=8, tag 39-OrdStatus=1 or 2) will be published before or at the same time as the last market data trade message

For each individual trade, iLink fill notices will be published before or at the same time as the associated market data trade messages

Due to performance improvements, packets per second (PPS) on implied MDP channels may increase up to 100%

These enhancements are part of our ongoing efforts to provide best-in-class technology and service on CME Globex.

January 19, 2014

CBOT treasury options; tag 1300=58

CME equity options; tag 1300=54

January 26, 2014

CBOT treasury futures; tag 1300=84

February 2, 2014

NYMEX crude energy futures; tag 1300=80

February 9, 2014

CME Eurodollar futures; tag 1300=82

February 23, 2014

CME and CBOT Commodity futures; tag 1300=70 and 72

Hosted PE markets and NYMEX emissions futures; tag 1300=74

New Public Source IPs for Certification and New Release Environment
At customers’ requests to increase network flexibility, the Certification and New Release Environments will move from private to public source IPs for iLink, Drop Copy and FIX/FAST market data channels at the close of business on Friday, January 24, 2014. If a firewall or network device is configured with the source IP information, please correct your configuration to use the entire range of eligible addresses.

iLink

Customers will receive the new public IPs for iLink via an AutoCert+ generated email on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Subsequent email reminders will be sent prior to the close of business on Friday, January 24, 2014. If you require the new public IPs before Wednesday, December 18, 2013, please contact Global Account Management or Certification Support for Electronic Trading (CSET).

Drop Copy

All testing Drop Copy ID in the Certification and New Release Environments will be deleted on Friday, January 24, 2014. Please contact Global Account Management to obtain new Drop Copy IDs to access Drop Copy testing environments.

FIX/FAST Market Data Channels

The new Port, multicast addresses, and source IPs for FIX/FAST market data channels are currently available for download in the config.xml file on the CME Group FTP site for New Release and Certification environments.

New CME Globex Market Data Protocol
In Q2 2014, CME Group is introducing Market Data Platform (MDP) 3.0, a low latency and direct data access solution designed to improve customers' ability to process and act on real-time price information. The protocol production dates will be announced in future CME Globex and Market Data Notices.

Important Update: Based on customer feedback, MDP 3.0 is being updated with a new trade reporting functionality. This update will impact the message layouts and require a new template for trade messages only. The Client Impact Assessment has been updated to reflect the new trade messaging, which will be available for testing in New Release in early Q2 2014. Customers should not develop to the current trade reporting messages, since it will be changed before the production launch; all other messaging and functionality will remain unchanged.

MDP 3.0 channels and functionality are currently available in New Release.

Please Note: There will be a new version of the MDP 3.0 NR Schema file available next week via the CME Group FTP site, for use in New Release beginning on Sunday, January 19, 2014. These new templates will not be backward compatible. Due to the nature of the changes, the old templates and template ids will not be persisted in the Schema File. An update to the Schema Version will accompany the new templates and template ids.

A new MDP 3.0 certification suite will be available in AutoCert+. Customer systems receiving market data via CME Globex must complete this mandatory certification.

Real Logic Ltd. and Informatica have collaborated to create open source tools that provide extensive support for Simple Binary Encoding (SBE), the messaging standard developed through The Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Trading Community. The SBE decoders will create an environment that can be used directly by customers or treated as a reference implementation that can be extended into custom solutions tailored to individual customer’s needs. The information and tool are open to the public under an Apache Public License and available here.

Please contact your Global Account Manager with any questions or concerns in the U.S. at +1 312 634 8700, in Europe at +44 203 379 3754 or in Asia at +65 6593 5505 for additional information.

New Functionality

CME Europe on CME Globex
Pending regulatory approval, CME Europe markets will be available via CME Globex for iLink order routing and market data on a launch date to be determined. The launch date will be published in the CME Globex notice.

Only non-US customers are eligible to trade on CME Europe. Eligible customers who would like to trade CME Europe products must establish all appropriate agreements and accounts to be authorized to trade CME Europe products and clear through CME Clearing Europe.

These contacts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CBOT.

Product Changes

Listing Cycle Changes for Wheat-Corn Intercommodity Calendar Spread Options (ICSO)
Effective Sunday, January 26, (trade date Monday, January 27), Wheat-Corm Inter-Commodity Spread options listing schedule will be expanded to March, May, and September maturities. With this change, the listing schedule will be 10 maturities of March, May, July, September and December. Currently, only 4 maturities of July and December are listed.

Wheat-Corn Intercommodity Calendar Spread Options (ICSO)

Product

tag 1151-Security Group

tag 55-Symbol

ITC Code

Wheat-Corn Intercommodity Calendar Spread Options

ZCW

Q3

XCW

Synthetic Wheat-Corn Intercommodity Calendar Spread

QCW

05

QCW

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CBOT.

These changes will be available for customer testing in New Release on Monday, January 20.

These contacts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CME.

Listing Cycle Expansion for CME S&P GSCI-ER Changes
Effective Sunday, January 26, (trade date Monday, January 27) the listing cycle for the CME S&P GSCI-ER futures (tag1151-SecurityGroup=GIE, tag 55-Symbol=GA) will be expanded to list the nearest 4 maturities. Currently, only one maturity is listed at a given time.

This change will be available for customer testing in New Release on Monday, January 20.

These contacts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CME.

Additional information on this change, including the new GCC phone menu is available online.

If you have any questions, please contact the CME Global Command Center in the US at +1 800 438 8616, in Europe at +44 800 898 013 or in Asia at +65 6532 5010.

CME Globex Connectivity Update: EConnect Secaucus
CME Group is expanding its network to include a point of presence (PoP) at the Equinix data center in Secaucus, NJ. As a result, customers will be able to order redundant connections to the CME Group production and DR environments via a customer managed connectivity option called EConnect Secaucus. With this option, customers located within the NY4/NY5 Equinix campus can order cross connects to CME Group for a monthly charge of $4,000.

Customers can also order a separate Cert Data Center connection to access CME Group’s Certification and New Release environments. CME Group does not charge for access to its Certification and New Release environments, however customers may incur one-time and/or recurring cross connect charges from their data center provider.

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